1 Kings 14:30
in 1 Kings 14There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam throughout their days.
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ASV
And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
KJV
And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
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This verse in 1 Kings 14
Commentary
7 notes on this verseWas war - Not an invasive war with potent armies, which was forbidden, chap. xii, 24, and not revived 'till Abijam's reign, 2 Chron. xiii, 1-3, but a defensive war from those hostilities which by small parties and skirmishes they did to one another.
This site's exposition
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah
on 1 Kings 14:29-31
The southern kingdom gets its own named source here, the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah, matching the northern formula the narrator used two verses earlier for Israel. Verse 30 records continuous war between the two houses without describing a single battle, a hostility the book will keep marking by this same short notice through several reigns to come. Rehoboam dies and is buried with his fathers in the city of David, his mother named again as at verse 21, and Abijam his son succeeds him to a reign the next chapter measures and finds wanting.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
It was strange that David would marry his son Solomon to an Ammonitess (for it was done while he lived), but it is probable that Solomon was in love with her, because she was Naamah, a beauty (so it signifies), and his father was loth to cross him, but it proved to have a very bad influence upon posterity.
And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days. For though Rehoboam did not enter into an offensive war, and attack the children of Israel, being dissuaded from it by Shemaiah the prophet in the name of the Lord, yet he might maintain a defensive war; and though there were no pitched battles between them as afterwards, in his son's time, yet there might be skirmishes and bickerings on the borders of their countries.
In both we may read the mischievous consequences of sin and the calamities it brings on kingdoms and families. Abijah's Sickness; the Prophet Ahijah Consulted.
Here is much evil said of the subjects, both as to their character and their condition. See here how wicked and profane they were. It is a most sad account that is here given of their apostasy from God,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam--The former was prohibited from entering on an aggressive war; but as the two kingdoms kept up a jealous rivalry, he might be forced into vigilant measures of defense, and frequent skirmishes would take place on the borders.
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The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּמִלְחָמָ֨ה | umilchamah | and war | H4421 → | 320 times |
| הָיְתָ֧ה | hayetah | it was | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| בֵין־ | vein- | between | H996 → | 407 times |
| רְחַבְעָ֛ם | rechavam | Rehoboam | H7346 → | 50 times |
| וּבֵ֥ין | uvein | and between | H996 → | 407 times |
| יָרָבְעָ֖ם | yaraveam | Jeroboam | H3379 → | 104 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| הַיָּמִֽים׃ | haiyamim | the days | H3117 → | 2304 times |
וּמִלְחָמָ֨הand war
umilchamahH4421 →320 times
הָיְתָ֧הit was
hayetahH1961 →3559 times
בֵין־between
vein-H996 →407 times
רְחַבְעָ֛םRehoboam
rechavamH7346 →50 times
וּבֵ֥יןand between
uveinH996 →407 times
יָרָבְעָ֖םJeroboam
yaraveamH3379 →104 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
הַיָּמִֽים׃the days
haiyamimH3117 →2304 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
2 Chronicles 12:15Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the records of Shemaiah the Prophet and of Iddo the Seer concerning the genealogies? There was war between Rehoboam and…
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 9:29
As for the rest of the acts of Solomon, from beginning to end, are they not written in the Records of Nathan the Prophet, in the Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the…
- 2 Chronicles 12:5
Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them, “This is what the LORD says: ‘You have forsaken…
- 2 Chronicles 9:29
Through
1 Kings 12:21And when Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the whole house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against the house of Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of…
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 11:1–3
When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the house of Judah and Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.
- 2 Chronicles 11:1–3
Through
1 Kings 12:24that this is what the LORD says: ‘You are not to go up and fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you must return home, for this word is from Me.’” So they…
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 11:4
that this is what the LORD says: ‘You are not to go up and fight against your brothers. Each of you must return home, for this word is from Me.’” So they listened to…
- 1 Kings 12:15
So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfill the word He had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the…
- Numbers 14:42
Do not go up, lest you be struck down by your enemies, because the LORD is not among you.
- 1 Kings 11:29–38
During that time, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met Jeroboam on the road as he was going out of Jerusalem. Now Ahijah had wrapped himself in a new cloak, and the two of them…
- 2 Chronicles 25:7–8
But a man of God came to him and said, “O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel—not with any of the Ephraimites.
- 2 Chronicles 11:4
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil, The Books of the Kings and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.